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Half a year after the declaration of famine, Somalia continues to face one of the most severe humanitarian crises in the world. Four million people still need humanitarian assistance, and insecurity is severely hampering the ability of aid agencies to deliver.
Nonetheless, many humanitarian workers remain...

2011 has been a deeply challenging year for millions of people around the world - and stretched the capacity of humanitarian aid organisations to the limit. An earthquake and tsunami in Japan, drought and famine in the Horn of Africa, and flooding in Central America, Pakistan and Southeast Asia,...

It’s a hot, dusty morning in Mogadishu, the war-ravaged capital of Somalia, and Ahmed Farah Roble is in a makeshift settlement for internally displaced persons (IDPs), listening to a mother tell him about her baby daughter.
Ahmed nods patiently, asks questions and listens attentively. He’s in...

The United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator (ERC), Valerie Amos today completed a three-day trip to Kenya and Somalia to draw international attention to the world's most serious food crisis.
Somalia is the worst affected...

Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator Catherine Bragg, shared some worrying statistics on the situation in Somalia with the United Nations Security Council on August 10. She told members that in some areas of Somalia, under-5 mortality rates had peaked at 13 per 10,000 people per day. To put that into...